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This poem is dated 21.09.1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the verso, Keith has repetitively typed "1" to form a typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page contains a portrait composed of typed letters and words with crayoned enhancements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the original of the typing which appears in Chopin's book of unnumbered pages, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde" in b&w. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is poem appears to resemble the silhouette of a an individual doing a headstand on a chair. Wikipedia: Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (April 12, 1934 "“ January 29, 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January of 2013. His father, Juho Aukusti Hollo (1885"“1967) "” who liked to be known as "J. A." Hollo "” was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish. His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden, a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist Paul Walden. He lived for eight years in the United Kingdom producing three children: Hannes, Kaarina, and Tamsin, with his first wife, poet Josephine Clare. He was a permanent resident in the United States from the late 1960s until his death. At the time of his death, he resided in Boulder, Colorado with his second wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the UK...

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The theme of this poem is William Faulkner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The images created with typed text are of the brain and its component parts. The text is related to anatomy and physiology of the brain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an original of the typing-collage which appears as page 15 of Chopin's book, "Le Repas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typed caption in the upper left side whose letters are formed by small o's reads,"hello cuckoo can i be your friend." Next to the text stands a small densely typed with slashes and @'s, little bird. The bird stands on a typed rectangle beneath which there is a typed 3D tube form and a 3D rectangular box. This piece is the only typewriter poetic work of Houedard's held by the Sackner Archive for the year 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work depicts the objects present the rooms of Hotel du Nord in Paris. The name was also the title of a French movie drama (1938). Wikipedia: The film follows the comings and goings at the Hôtel du Nord on the banks of the Canal St. Martin in Paris. The films begins with the gathering of many of the hotel's occupants around the dinner table for the first communion of Michéle, who lives in the hotel with her policeman father, Maltaverne. Madame Lecouvreur tells Michèle to bring a piece of cake upstairs to Raymonde (Arletty), who is talking with her boyfriend, Edmond (Louis Jouvet). A prostitute, Raymonde leaves Edmond, a photographer, who wants to develop his film. In the meantime, a young couple, Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), enter the hotel and rent a room for the night. Once alone, Renée and Pierre discuss their plan to kill themselves as they feel they have nothing left to live for. Pierre pulls out a gun and shoots Renee, but then loses his confidence...

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This is an original of a typing which appears as page 11 of Chopin's book, "Le Repas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.